A remarkable attempt was made on Saturday night, about ten o'clock, to commit a robbery upon a dog: This faithful animal, it seems, is the property of one Porson, of Church-street, Bethnal-green, who, working at a Factory at Bow, does not return home above once in a month, but has for a long time past made a practice of sending his mother half-a- ( Read more... )

The time is coming to say farewell to Gemma, my mother's mostly-dachshund, a.k.a. Noodle, a.k.a. Wumpus or variations on the previous. She is fifteen, has been a cranky little dog for most of her life and wobbly on her legs for the lst couple of years, and I am the founder member of her fan club. She's been slowing down this year, especially the ( Read more... )

Just watched Vanity Fair (2004), which I borrowed from the library in a spirit of faint obligation to take advantage of one of the very few perks of the job. The performances were all right, but the adaptation seemed stuck in limbo between Thackeray's Regency and modern sensibilities. The director, Mira Nair, appeared to have applied an Alice in ( Read more... )

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